CATTLEYA SCHILLERIANA. 
[PiaTE 525. ] 
Native of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs fusiform, sub-terete, three inches or more in height, 
invested with greyish and purplish sheathing scales, diphyllous. Leaves leathery, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, three to four inches long, dull green above, purplish below. 
Scapes terminal, two-flowered. Flowers large, six inches across; sepals and petals 
sub-equal, spathulate, undulated at the edges, yellowish suffused with rose, and densely 
covered with purple dots and spots, the dorsal sepal and the petals being more 
sparsely spotted than the ventral sepals; Jip three-lobed, lateral lobes bluntly 
triangular, white veined and suffused with rosy purple, enclosing the column ; front 
lobe ob-reniform, crispulate at the margin, deep rich amethyst-purple, veined with still 
deeper purple, the basal portion bright yellow with some amethyst-purple veins. 
CattteyA Scuituertana, H. G. Reichenbach fil., Berliner Allgemeine Garten- 
zettung, 1857, p. 335. Flore des Serres, t. 2286. Gartenflora, 1889, t. 1290. 
Veitch’s Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, part ii., p. 45. Williams, Orchid Grower's 
Manual, 7th edition, p. 184. 
CaTTLeyA ACLANDIAE ScHILLERIANA, Jennings’ Orchids, t. 25. : 
EprrmpEnpRUM ScHiLuertanumM, HA. G. Reichenbach fil., Xenia Orchidacea, ii, p. 
36, t. 111. 
CaTTLEYA ScHILLERIANA concoLor, Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 5150. 
Cartteya Scuritertana Reenewu, Williams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 7th 
edition, p. 184. : 
CattteyA Reenetui, Warner, Select Orchidaceous Plants, ii., t. 25. 
Carrteya Scuitiertana Lowu, Journal of Horticulture, xxv., 1892, p. 187, 
fio. 26. 
Although one of the most variable Cattleyas as regards colour, it is but rarely 
that such a rich form turns up as we now have the pleasure of illustrating. co. 
Schilleriana first appeared in the collection of Consul Schiller, of Hamburg, w 0 
imported it from Brazil, and whose gardener, Herr Stange, succeeded in sehen 
it. A little later it also appeared in Mr. Louis Van Houtte’s Nurseries in ey bs ile 
two years afterwards Messrs. Backhouse & Son, of York, sent flowers to Sir a 
Hooker, who figured it in the Botanical tage ened varietal name concolor, 
as they differed slightly in colour from those first described. 
forms a since ieee ol some of which have been thought worthy of sian 
names. One of these was considered by the late Mr. Robert Warmer to : 
sufficiently distinct to be ranked as a_ separate form, and he described it in is 
Many other different 
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